* Fixed an issue looking up cronjobs when they existed in more than one API version ([#52227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52227), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixes an issue with upgrade requests made via pod/service/node proxy subresources sending a non-absolute HTTP request-uri to backends ([#52065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52065), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- `kubeadm`: will now allow deploying a kubelet that is 3 versions older than the version of `kubeadm` (N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than...

- Fixes a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.
  This allows kube-scheduler to ensure it is assigns node names to the same instances of pods it made scheduling decisions for. ([#116763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116763), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]